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Deputy Attorney General McNulty Resigns
by Ari Shapiro
Morning Edition, May 15, 2007 · Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty has announced that he will resign late this summer. He is the most senior official to step down from the Justice Department in the ongoing furor over fired U.S. attorneys.
McNulty did not mention the fired prosecutors in his resignation letter.
He told Attorney General Alberto Gonzales his decision was motivated by “the financial realities of college-age children.”
The attorney general didn’t mention the prosecutors, either. In a written statement, Gonzales called McNulty “an outstanding public servant and a fine attorney.”